Subject: r8169: slow samba performance

From: Bruce Cole <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 09:39:47 -0700

>Just upgraded a motherboard and it came with an onboard
>Realtek card which appears to use the r8169 driver.  The
>machine is a samba server and when serving files to a local
>Linux or Windows client, I only get approx 40-60 kbps. 
>Write performance is fine though, in the tens of mbps and
>scp, nfs, and ftp server all work well so it appears
>specific to the Samba load.  However, when serving to more
>than one client symoltaniously, performance goes up
>dramatically, again into the tens of mbps or when there is
>other network activity.

Shane, join the crowd :)  Try the fix I just re-posted over here:

http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg39244.html